The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-08-18
NATIONAL NEWS.
CHARGES UNDER CONSIDERATION.

| WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.-Lieutenani
General Sheridan, who has just re.
turned to Washinston, has under con.
sideration the charges preferred by
Col. W.D. Whipple, Assistant General
stationed at Governors Island, n. Y.
against Col. w. w. Burns, Assistant
COmissionary General of subsistence,
who is stationed at the same post.
Both officers are on the staff of Major
| General Schofield. The charges
allege conduct unbecoming an officer
and gentleman" and grow out of an
alteration between the two officers
| over personal matter. Colonel Whip
pie asserts that Colonel Burns abused
him shamefully, applying most appro-
briOus epithets to him, and struck him
| a blow when his back was turned.
Colonel Burns was placed under arrest
| by General Schofield. and the matter
| referred to General Sheridan for the
| reason that there are not enough Off
| GERS of sufficient rank at the post to
form a court for the trial of the case.
1t is probable that COlontl Burns will
| be contaminated.
APPOINTED BY THE PRESIDENT.
The President to-day appointed Rev.
VIM. j. Cleveland and Henry 7. Stan
ton, of Kentucky, a commission to APP
praise and allot certain lands in the
Umatilla Reservation belonging to the
confederated bands of Cavuse, Walla
Walla and Umatilla Indians.
DEMAND FOR PUBLIC SURVEYS.
George w. Julian, the Surveyor
General of New Mexico, has made his
| annual report to the Commissioner of
the General Land Office. He states
| that the demand for public surveys in
| the Territory is constantly growing.
He is of the opinion that the Depart
| ment should encourage the immigra-
| ton now going on by a more liberal
policy touching the public surveys than
| now prevailing. The report states that
during the year ,SS7 mineral surveys
have been approved against forty-one
/ of the preceding year which tends to
show greater activity in developing
the mineral resources of the territory.
| Mr.. Julian states that from an eXmina-
| ton of private land claims made up to
| the date of his last annual report, he
| found that l 900, POS acres had been
unlawfully reserved for entry
under the public ,t land laws
valid titles and fraudulent surveys
| He finds that in the cases since exam
ined the government has been defraud
ed to still more shocking extent. The
Estanice grant, he says, which was ap
proved for 415, 036 acres is fraudulent
| and void, and this area has been appro
priated to private uses without war
| rant of law. He thinks also that three
quarters of million of acres of the
S43, 1853 acres approved in the
in the claim. The aggregate
of lands Illegally withheld from settle
ment in the cases examined and re
examined within the past year, HI
thinks, would be little short of 1000,
600 acres. He calls attention to the
Imal-administration of the laws in the
grants already confirmed by Congress
and states that he is now engaged in q
resurvey of the grants still unpatented
their true boundaries, and il
this way he is of the opinion that largt
tracts will be restored to the public
domain. He states that he has recon
mended suit for the recovery to tn
Government of more than 10000 acre
in the Armendaries grant, which is il
excess of the true area. The sam
recommendation was made in tn
Armarilla grant. He also thinks tina
there should be a Judicial examinatio
of the Mora grant. The report call
attention to the action of Congress il
1880 and the Interior Department i
1879 in the famous Maxwell land gran
case, which he characteriZeS as war
ton and shameful surrender to tn
, rapacity of mOnopoiists of 1862, &c
, acres of the public domain, on whic
hundreds of poor men had settled i
, good faith and made valuable improve
ments. 1t has been as calamitOus
! New Mexico, says the SuTveyOr-GeI
3 eral, as it is humiliating to the Unite
=, States. The report states that durin
the last Congress several men
( bers of both houses, includ
2 ing the delegate from thi
i territory, reported bills for the con
5 fifmatiOn of the Socorro grant, whiC
is one of the most shocking OF tn
: many attempts yet made to plunde
s the cost of carrying on the office fo
: next year is S63, 900, of which s15, 900
, for clerk hire. The appropriation fl
: the present fiscal year Is 50 900.
= THURMAN VISITS GROVER.
Z Ex-senator Thurman, of Ohio, wa
:, a guest of the President at Oak Vie
/, last night and to-day. He left for hi
b home in Ohio tonight.
Il OPPOSING SPARKS ADJUSTMENT.
b WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.-Ex-Senat,
, Allen G. Thurman, of Ohio, and NJ
i A. S. Britton, of Washington, to-ds
:, in behalf of the Chicago, st. Pau
e Minneapolis s. Omaha Railroad Cor
r pany presented an argument befo
the Secretary and Assistant Secretal
4 of the Interior In opposition to ii
d approval of the adjustment of Il
u grant of the railroad company as I
ported by Commissioner Sparks OF Il
General Land Office on August 3rd.
VALIDITY OF MONEY LOAN CONTRACT
er WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.-Hon. III
II cry Speer, presiding in the Unit
re States Circuit Court for the Southe
District of Georgia, to-day rendered
decision in the case of Sherwood !
III Roundtree, involving the validity
to the contracts of money loa
in on land made by 10
90 companies He held that {
It practice of these companies of wit
be holding from Is to 20 per cent. of